Commonwealth Games 2018, Day 10, Highlights: India have won 25 gold, 16 silver and 18 bronze medals taking their total medal tally to 59.

The penultimate day of the 21st Commonwealth Games 2018 saw India better their medal tally as they finished with 59 medals. India have won 25 gold, 16 silver and 18 bronze medals. The tenth day say boxer MC Mary Kom win gold in the women's 48 kilogram category. India's Neeraj Chopra won the men's Javelin title while Vinesh Phogat won gold in the women's 50 kg wrestling competition. India's Dipika Pallikal and Saurav Ghosal claimed silver after going down against Australia's Donna Urquhart and Cameron Pilley in the summit clash of the mixed doubles squash competition. Boxer Vikas Krishan clinched gold medal in the men's 75kg category while Satish Kumar lost the final of the 91kg category and returned with a silver. In the men's doubles table tennis competition, India's Harmeet Desai and Sanil Shankar Shetty bagged the bronze medal. (MEDALS TALLY)

Chopra became the first Indian javelin thrower to claim a gold medal at the Commonwealth Games, pulling off a season's best effort of 86.47m in the final in Gold Coast. The 20-year-old former junior world champion had made the final after achieving the qualifying mark in his very first throw on Friday and, on Saturday, he was again leaps ahead of the field with his very first throw. Neeraj was the favourite for gold after his 85.94m throw during the Federation Cup National Championships last month and he achieved India's first gold in athletics in this edition of the Games.Hamish Peacock took the silver medal for Australia with 82.59m while Grenada's Anderson Peters hurled the javelin a distance of 82.20m for the bronze. Sanjeev Rajput clinched the gold medal in men's 50m Rifle 3 Positions. Sanjeev shot a total of 454.5 to create a Commonwealth Games record. Grzegorz Sych of Canada finished second with 448.4 and Dean Bale of England bagged the bronze medal with 441.2 points. Chain Singh, the other Indian in the fray, finished fifth in the standings with 419.1. Star Indian boxer MC Mary Kom won gold in the women's 48 kilogram category. Mary defeated Kristina O'Hara of Northern Ireland by a unanimous 5:0 verdict to take the title. Indian boxer Gaurav Solanki won the gold medal in the men's flyweight (52 kilogram) category. Solanki won a tough, fast paced, tactical battle by a split 4:1 verdict against the impressive Brendan Irvine of Northern Ireland in the final. Meanwhile, India's Manish Kaushik had to be content with silver in the men's lightweight (60kg) division. Kaushik lost 2:3 to Harry Garside of Australia in a hard-fought final. World No.3 PV Sindhu set up an all-Indian women's singles final with World No.12 Saina Nehwal in women's badminton competition. While Sindhu thrashed Canada's Michelle Li in straight games 21-18, 21-8 in the semi-final, Saina overcame a stiff contest from Scotland's Kirsty Gilmour winning by 21-14, 18-21, 21-17, and set her date with her compartriot in the summit clash on Sunday. Both Sindhu and Saina kept their unbeaten run alive and their victories over lower-ranked opponents went on expected lines. India's Manika Batra came through in a tight encounter to make her way through to the final of women's singles table tennis competition. Manika defeated Tianwei Feng of Singapore 4-3 (12-10, 5-11, 11-8, 5-11, 5-11, 11-9, 13-11) in a topsy turvy encounter. Indian wrestlers did the nation proud as Sumit Malik won the 125 kilogram freestyle title while Vinesh Phogat took women's 50kg gold. Sumit won all his four bouts in the Nordic (round robin) format to emerge champion. Korey Jarvis of Canada got the silver while Pakistan's Tayab Raza took the bronze. Among the women, Vinesh won gold in the 50kg competition as she ended at the top of the standings at the end of the Nordic format. Vinesh defeated Miesinnei Genesis of Nigeria, Rupinder Kaur of Australia and Canada's Jessica MacDonald. India got another medal when Somveer bagged bronze in the men's 86kg division. Somveer defeated Alexander Moore of Canada 7-3 in the play-off for the bronze medal.

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On day 9, world no.1 Kidambi Srikanth stormed into the badminton men's singles semi-finals thrashing Singapore's Zin Rei Ryan in straight games. Srikanth, who rose to the No.1 spot in the Badminton World Federation (BWF) rankings on Thursday, hardly lost any sweat in thrashing the Singaporean 21-15, 21-12 at the Carrara Sports Arena.

Indian shooter Bhanwala became the country's youngest ever gold medal winner in the Commonwealth Games. Anish achieved the feat when he stormed his way into the gold medal with a Games record in the men's 25m rapid fire pistol event at the Belmont Shooting Centre. The Haryana boy shot down the CWG record in the final with a score of 30 including four series of 5 each. The youngest in the field, he showed nerves of steel and led the more experienced shooters through the event to emerge deserving champion. Australia's Sergei Evglevski claimed the silver with 28, while the bronze medal went to Sam Gowin (17) of England.

Shooters Tejaswini Sawant and Anjum Moudgil won gold and silver respectively in the Women's 50m Rifle 3 Positions at the 21st Commonwealth Games. Tejaswini registered a new Games record 457.9 points to take the title. Anjum scored 455.7. Seonaid McIntosh of Scotland took bronze with 444.6. Indian wrestler Bajrang Punia entered the final of the men's 65 kilogram category at the 21st Commonwealth Games. The Indian came up with an awe inspiring performance to win all his bouts by technical superiority. Bouts are awarded on the basis of technical superiority when a wrestler takes a lead of 10 or more points.